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After 20 years of proudly wearing my white collar, after ingesting dozens of business success book, after encountering hundreds, if not thousands, of folks like me, stuck somewhere in Cubeland, positioned somewhere on the ladder that spans failure and success, I discovered that the book I really needed hadn’t been written, a book that was honest, funny, and poked well-deserved fun at everything that is life in a corporate world. So, I wrote that book and called it White Collar Warrior.

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Great Moments In Corporate Diversity

Warriors, race is always a touchy subject. You should never mention race in almost any context.

Unless there is something extremely and obviously off.

Take a look here, a good long look…

http://www.nbcuni.com/About_NBC_Universal/Executive_Bios/

There are 18 executives running NBC. Two of them are of color. One of those with a little extra melanin also happens to be the executive vice president in charge of diversity.

And now go to and count the faces of color at…

http://www.nbc.com/

And now un-count Jamie Fox, a guest on The Tonight Show this week.

Isn’t it nice that we are living in post-racial America?

And sure, this observation might be a little unfair, and no, I don't think NBC is a racist organization.

But if you are a middle manager with stellar performance reviews at NBC, and you see the make up of its controlling officers, how are you feeling about your chances of cracking into that top floor of the Ivory Tower?

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